针对我国应试教育对高中生的负面影响.docx

1、针对我国应试教育对高中生的负面影响The Negative Influence of Exam-Oriented Education for Chinese High School Student: Backwash from ClassroomYuebing ZangShinawatra University ED501 Principles and Philosophy of Language Teaching and LearningRobert KirkpatrickAugust 8Abstract There is a problem make students and teache

2、rs are very puzzling in China that is exam-oriented education. This article mainly expounds the negative influence to Chinese high school students. Students study every day only for one thing-exam. This becomes a model for Chinese education and students become a machine for study. This education sys

3、tem limit students imagination, creative power, and self-awareness force. Meanwhile, it also affected students psychological. How to decrease the negative influence are associated with exam-oriented education is a Chinese people care about.The Negative Influence of Exam-Oriented Education for Chines

4、e High School Students: Backwash from ClassroomNowadays, students who study in Chinese high school are very hard because they are study every day and test every day. Their life is three points one line: home-school-home. They start class at 7:00 am (for morning reading) then they start first class a

5、t 8:00am. Every 45 minutes have 10 minutes break until 12 am. Afternoon classes begin at 14:30pm until 18:00pm. So they have 8 classes in one day (not include morning reading). Sometimes, high school students may have 3-4 tests in one day. They have no extracurricular activities and they have so man

6、y homework need to do. In the education mode, students lost a free development of space, they are learning, and it has also become a kind of patternizing education.What is exam-oriented education?Exam-oriented education is often regarded as a stress to pass the exam to mark to measure students level

7、. This is a teaching mode for the purpose of selected a few people from most people and sends they into high level school. The meaning of exam-oriented is deal with education and social life in all necessary tests. Education was contains exam-oriented component, similarly exam-oriented also be an im

8、portant part for education. But exam-oriented absolutely cannot be main part or whole body for education. When it become malformed that occupy most or whole of education, education will be a not normal status. Right now, exam-oriented education comes into being. (Zhiao Li, 2009) In China, all high s

9、chool students have a same objective-gaokao; they do so many tests at ordinary days only for get a high score in the gaokao. Students must memorize vast amounts of information to pass major tests, with the biggest determining factor in who attends elite universities and who does not being the gaokao

10、, Chinas grueling, ultra-competitive university entrance exam. Chinese spend much of their childhood memorizing and writing characters. By the time a student is 15 he or she has spent four or five hours a day over nine years learning to write a minimum of 3,000 characters. My terrible memory in Yunn

11、an, my hometown, teacher taught about test content every day to make sure students got to know how to solve problems. Students have to deal with tons of examination papers every day. Stephen Wong (2009) wrote in the Asia Times, Its possible that no other country has as many exams as China. From scho

12、ol admissions and job recruitment to promotion in the civil service, exams are an inseparable part of Chinese life incomplete statistics show that are 200 government-organized nationwide examinations and that nearly 40 million people take national tests each year. The number would be much bigger if

13、local-level tests were included on the list. A Stanford University math professor who studied the math curricula in East Asia told the Los Angeles Times. There is a very small body of factual mathematics that students need to learn but the need to learn it really, rally well. The source of the press

14、ure for Chinese high school studentsExam-oriented education value high score students but neglect most students and poor students. Not so much value high score students as value high score. Today, in China, teachers and parents all think scores are the only standard to evaluate students. High scores

15、 will be rewarded while low scores will be punished. This violated the obligation of the education aim, and violated education opportunities are equal. Exam-oriented education around tests and demand of enter a higher school, high school teachers always test what then teach what. Just teach content

16、of test, school and teacher ignores students cultivation of ability outside test. There is a article from Boston Globe, American students in the eyes of the Chinese education: All for examinationTheir entire education are likely to remember all the things that appear in the exam.()Chinese students d

17、o all day silent recitation and written exercises alone, or in unison to do oral exercises. Their entire education is all likely to remember everything in the exam (first exam, and then the entrance). It can be understandable because Chinese public school and university admit by examination all depe

18、nd on scores. In the worlds most populous country, the top universities will face competition for a vowed to Harvards American students feel the shameChinese students lessons strict degree more than all American students, this situation in the big cities and the suburbs and Rich County especially se

19、rious. These students are under pressure than most American students of imagination. ()Students lack of discuss and digest the opportunity to apply the knowledge, digestive less someone in the extracurricular involved in political discussions. In the United States as education is one part of the dec

20、ision-making and prudent thinking about, high school students in China almost didnt have any experience. Chinas school has many advantages, but they dont train philosopher. Exam-oriented education not only increase students schoolwork burden also make students ability cannot get full training. Stude

21、nts have no free time, when weekend they need go to cram school then study again and do many test again. In Chinese high school classroom, you can see there are more than 10 books on their desk. These books not only their textbooks also include practicing books. From high school they start with an i

22、nvisible pressure, is to pass the college entrance examination. In China, most teachers, parents and students all think go to university is only way to success. According to statistics, 70% Chinese high school students who are not pass examination let they cant go to university, most of they believe

23、 have no prospects in the future. Such beliefs are likely to accompany their lifetime, that they mind potential was completely inhibition. As anxiety makers, examinations are second to none. That is because so much depends on them. They are the mark of success or failure in our society. Your whole f

24、uture may be decided in one fateful day. The moment a child begins school, he enters a world of sharp competition where success and failure are clearly defined and measured. Can we wonder at the increasing number of drop-outs: young people who are written off as utter failures before they have begun

25、 a career? Can we be surprised at the suicide rate among students?On March 14, 2003, a beautiful Chinese girl Xiaoxu died of cerebral hemorrhage due to constant overwork, at her age of 14. She was a typical good student. We learned from her diaries that she got up at 4 am and went to bed at midnight

26、 every day. She just had a few hours for rest. She almost had no vocations (Zhihe Wang, 2011). Following is her study schedule for a winter break6:30 am get up8:00 am-11 am homework1:00 pm-2:00 pm practice math2:00 pm-2:30 pm pre-study the English book of next semester2:30 pm-3:00 pm reading Guide t

27、o Literature Classics3:00pm-4:00 pm reading reference booksRecite an ancient poemFinish practicing one unit math questions exerciseStudy English New Thinking in ClassStudy Maths New Thinking in ClassPractice CalligraphySaturday self study Target EnglishSunday Self study Target EnglishCompose two pap

28、ers in English per weekCompose two papers in Chinese per weekWithout a doubt, she was extremely overwhelmed by the book learning.Ironically, quality education under exam-oriented education also has played an important role in pushing her to death. Recently quality education has become very fashionab

29、le in China. By quality education, mainly focuses on training students talents on music and paining. It is also called The second classroom. It is nothing wrong to do education; the point is that original implication of quality education was distorted by too many tests. In her diary, Xiaoxu (2003) w

30、rote, Right now people praise quality education, the second classroom, the awards, the certificates, however, which one is without test? On February 28, 2003, half a month before she died, Xiaoxu wrote such a paragraph in her diaryThe new semester will start tomorrow. I must achieve the best marks.

31、Mt original dream is to become a medical doctor. Now I badly want to become an educator. I will let all parents and children feel easyAs we know, exam has been playing a vital role in education system. Unfortunate, Xiaoxu is a victim of exam-oriented education; her death urges us to rethink exam-ori

32、ented education. This situation is very evident in China today, exam is not only justified as the important mean of realizing equality democracy and social justice, but also turns out to be the aim of education.The result of exam-oriented education, most of students have been ignored, they produce weariness, development one-sided, personality repressed and lack of continued development of ability. This is a not normal education, the exam as the whole educations centre of gravity. In addition, recently a psychological survey showed 32% out of 10 thousands eleme